HUDSON TAYLOR The man who believed God by Marshall Broomhall

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courage brothers and sisters to go out and simply depend
upon Him, if we were accepting, as a better alternative, a
living on interests from vested properties .... The conclusion
to which we came before God was-it does not affect
anyone else-that as His servants it was our privilege to use
for His glory whatever He might send, not actually required
for our own immediate wants; and we did so, and we have
not had cause to regret it. God has proved faithful to us, and
is so still. And many of you know, my dear wife and myself
do not use any of the general funds of the China Inland
Mission."
What the Chefoo Convention meant to the Mission
at this time may be gathered from the fact that during
the next eighteen months its pioneers travelled more
than thirty thousand miles throughout the Empire
making known the Gospel.
Shortly before Christmas 1877 Hudson Taylor was
home again, glad to be reunited to his wife after a separation
of more than a year. On the field he had been
guiding the widespread movements of the workers, had
taken part in the great Missionary Conference at Shanghai,
but had now come home to make more fully known
the terrible conditions arising from the famine in China,
and to organize more thoroughly the work in England.
But though he had been so long separated from Mrs.
Taylor, he gladly spared her to go forward to China to
engage in famine relief, and especially the care of the
orphans. He followed in February, 1879. Though many
memorable journeys and important developments belong
to this period, such as the opening of work at
Chefoo, the visiting of the Kwangsin River, soon to
become an important sphere for women's work, we
must press on to the autumn of 188r. Again Mr. and
Mrs. Taylor separated, Mrs. Taylor· going home alone
while Mr. Taylor stayed behind and held a memorable